Introduction

Thomas Poell is Associate Professor of New Media & Digital Culture at the University of
Amsterdam. He is director of the Research Priority Area on Global Digital Cultures
at the UvA, vice-director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS), and part
of the core team Audiovisual Data and Media Studies of the national infrastructural project
CLARIAH (NWO). His research is focused on digital platforms and the transformation of public
communication around the globe. He has published on social media and popular protest in
Canada, Egypt, Tunisia, India, and China, as well as on the role of these media in the
development of new forms of journalism. Poell is co-author of The Platform Society with José van
Dijck and Martijn de Waal (Oxford University Press, 2018) and of the forthcoming Platforms and
Cultural Production (Polity, 2021) with David Nieborg and Brooke Erin Duffy. Furthermore, he
co-edited The Sage Handbook of Social Media (Sage, 2018), Social Media Materialities and Protest
(Routledge, 2018), and Global Cultures of Contestation (Palgrave/McMillan, 2017).

Poell, T. & J. van Dijck. 2018. Social Media and New Protest Movements. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, edited by J. Burgess, A. Marwick, and T. Poell. London and New York: SAGE Publications Ltd.

van Dijck, J. & T. Poell. 2018. Social media platforms and education.” In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, edited by J. Burgess, A. Marwick, and T. Poell. London and New York: SAGE Publications Ltd.

"Media in Transition." Invited talk at the RMeS Summer School 2012. University of Groningen, Netherlands, 25-29 June 2012.

"Twitter als begrensde en onbegrensde ruimte." Presentation at Grenzeloze Geesteswetenschappen - The opening ceremony of the academic year of the Faculty of the Humanities. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8 September 2011.

Papers & Presentations

“Platform Power & Public Value.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 2018 Conference, with José van Dijck and David Nieborg. Montreal, Canada, 10-13 October 2018.

"Protest Leadership in the Age of Social Media", Political Agency in the Digital Age Conference, Communication and Democracy section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-10 October 2015.

with J. de Kloet & Zeng, G. "Microblogging and activism: comparing Sina Weibo and Twitter."Paper presented at the 4th European Communication Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Istanbul, Turkey, 24-27 October 2012.

"A Critique of Social Media Activism: From Tools to Assemblages." Paper presented at the The Fourth ICTs and Society-Conference: Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media. Uppsala University, Sweden, 2-4 May 2012.

with J. de Kloet. "Online Activism and ChineseVoices of Discontent." Paper presented at the Digital East Asia Conference of the Modern East Asia Research Centre. Leiden University, Netherlands, 10 December 2011.

with A. Helmond, R. Rustema, and E. Weltevrede. "From Virtual Communities to Social Networks." Presentation at the1991@2011_Media_in_Motion Symposium of the Departement of Media Studies of the Faculty of the Humanities. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 21 October 2011.

"Twitter and the Tunisian Revolution." Presentation at the second summit of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Faculty of the Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 28 September 2011.

"Digital Activism in an Authoritarian Context." Presentation at the Theory and Practice of Development Dilemmas Hivos Knowledge Programme Dialogue, The Hague, 29 September - 1 October 2010.

"Colliding Media Spheres: the Interaction between On- and Offline. Media in Contentious Politics." Presentation at the Balans van de Journalistiek Jubileum Conferentie of the MA Journalistiek, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4 June 2010.

"Drawing mass media attention: television and newspaper reporting on radical left-wing activist performances and spectacles in the Netherlands (2004-2009)" Paper presented at the Media, Communication and the Spectacle Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 26-27 November, 2009.

"Activist Media and the Mainstream Press in Daily Practice: Covering Protests in the Netherlands (2004-2009)."Paper presented at the Future of Journalism Conference of the The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff,Groot-Brittannië, 9-10 september, 2009.

"The Mass Media in Multi cultural Conflict." Paper presented at the 2nd European Communication Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Barcelona, Spain, 25-28 November 2008.

"Mediated Citizenship in Multicultural Conflict. An Analysis of the Role of the Media in the Public Debate Following the Assassination of Theo van Gogh." Paper presented at the 4th Annual Conference 2008: Culture and Citizenship of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), Oxford, Great Britain, 3-5 September 2008.

"The Unification of the Dutch State, 1795- 1813." Paper presented in the Contentious Politics workshop of Columbia University, New York, United States, 31 January 2005.

"Local Particularism Challenged (1795-1813)." Paper presented at the 1st Dutch-Flemish conference on the Economic History of the Low Countries before 1850 of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, Antwerp, Belgium, 18-19 November 2004.

"Liberal Democracy versus Late Medieval Constitutionalism: Struggles over Representation in the Dutch Republic (1780-1800)."Paper presented in the The Formation of Representative Democracy workshop of The Politics and History of European Democratization Network van de European ScienceFoundation (ESF), University of Malaga, Spain, 10-11 October 2003.

"The Unification of the Dutch State, 1795-1813."Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Urban History of the European Association of Urban Historians inEdinburgh,Great Britain,5-7 September 2002.

"The Amsterdam elite and the formation of the Dutch state (1780-1813)." Paper presented in the Advanced Seminar on Urban History van de European graduate School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER), University of Athens, Greece, 18-22 February 2002.

"The Role of Amsterdam Elite in theTransition of the Republic to the Dutch National State."Paper presented at Fifth International Conference on Urban History of the European Association of Urban Historians, Berlin, Germany, 31 Augustus-2 September 2000.

Editorial board of

Social Media & Society

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

Reviewed on behalf of

New Media & Society

Information, Communication & Society

Theory, Culture & Society

Convergence

International Sociology

Digital Journalism

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

Krisis. Tijdschrift voor actuele filosofie.

Positions

Aug. 2009 - Assistant professor of New Media and Digital Culture (1,0 fte) University of Amsterdam, Faculty of the Humanities, Department of Media Studies

2015

Poell, T. (2015). Social Media Activism and State Censorship. In D. Trottier, & C. Fuchs (Eds.), Social media, politics and the state: protests, revolutions, riots, crime and policing in the age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (pp. 189-206). (Routledge research in information technology and society; No. 16). London: Routledge. [details]

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